Safety Issues Associated with Plutonium Involvement in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The U.S.-Russian Joint Studies on Using Power Reactors to Disposition Surplus Weapons Plutonium as Spent Fuel....Pages 1-13
Current State of And Near Term Prospects for Plutonium Management in Russia....Pages 15-23
The Role of Nuclear Power in Sustainable Development....Pages 25-34
Plutonium Disposition Research and Related Activities at the Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium....Pages 35-38
The Istc Projects Related to Plutonium Utilization and Disposition (Overview)....Pages 39-44
Waste Partitioning and Transmutation as a Means Towards Long-Term Risk Reduction....Pages 45-64
Nuclear Criticality Safety Aspects of the Utilization of Weapons-Grade Plutonium in Mox Fuel Using Current Bnfl Technology....Pages 65-76
Reducing the Proliferation Risk of Weapons Plutonium by Mixing with Reactor-Grade Plutonium....Pages 77-84
Cogema’s Contribution to the Recycling of Military Plutonium....Pages 85-89
Plutonium Incineration in Lwrs....Pages 91-95
State of the Art and Outlook for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle in the Russian Federation....Pages 97-104
On-Site Spent Fuel Management Based on Electrorefining....Pages 105-109
Prospects for Improvement of Vver Fuel Management and Mox Utilization....Pages 111-120
Use of Uranium-Erbium and Plutonium-Erbium Fuel in Rbmk Reactors....Pages 121-130
Plutonium Management and Actinide Burning in Candu Reactors....Pages 131-134
The Next Stage in Nuclear Power Development: Improved Pu Usage, Safety, Radioactive Waste and Non-Proliferation Features....Pages 135-138
Neutronic Aspects of Weapons-Grade Plutonium Utilization in The Vver-1000 Fuel Cycle....Pages 139-146
Validation of the MCU-RFFI/A Code for Applications to Plutonium Systems and Use of the MCU-RFFI/A Code for Verification of Physics Design Codes Intended for Calculations of Vver Reactor Performance With Mox Fuel....Pages 147-158
Development of Neutronic Models for two Types of Reactors Based on the Sapfir Package of Universal Algorithms....Pages 159-172
Performance Modeling for Weapons Mox Fuel in Light Water Reactors....Pages 173-177
Nuclear Power Systems Using Fast Reactors to Reduce Long-Lived Wastes....Pages 179-191
Plutonium-Fueled Lmfrs: Problems of Design Optimization for Self-Protection....Pages 193-198
Equilibrium, Proliferation Resistant, Closed Fuel Cycles for Lwrs....Pages 199-212
Delayed Neutron Data for Actinides Obtained from Global Level Measurements....Pages 213-224
Burning of Plutonium in Advanced Modular Pebble Bed Htrs: The Most Effective and Safe Way for Disposition....Pages 225-229
Denaturing Ex-Weapons Plutonium....Pages 231-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-241